LA LOCHE, Sask. – Mounties have charged an assault suspect after a home was destroyed by fire on a northern Saskatchewan reserve early Wednesday morning.
The incident began on Tuesday night when RCMP responded to a 911 call at a house on the Clearwater River Dene First Nation, which is north of La Loche, Saskatchewan.
Investigation into this matter revealed that a 26-year-old man had assaulted a 32-year-old woman with a knife.
The suspect and victim are known to each other.
Police were unable to locate the man during the initial stages of the investigation.
Around 4:42 a.m. on Wednesday, both the RCMP and the local fire department responded to the same residence to find it engulfed in flames.
The residence is occupied by the victim but no one was inside during the fire.
Later Wednesday morning, RCMP arrested 26-year-old Daniel Norman Lemaigre of Clearwater River Dene First Nation.
He has been charged with assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, being unlawful in a dwelling house, forcible confinement, mischief, arson and uttering threats to damage property.
Lemaigre is scheduled to make his first court appearance in La Loche provincial court on Thursday.
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